smash into

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To smash into something is to hit it so hard that something breaks. Not a bump — a collision with a noise.

The breaking is what the word promises, which is why smashing into a wall is more serious than running into one. It takes a direct object after into. News reports use it constantly for vehicles. There is a slightly gentler use in sport, since a ball can smash into the net, where nothing actually breaks and the word is doing pure emphasis.

Definitions of smash into

1phrasesmash intoTo collide with something violently.B2
“The van will smash into that bollard one day.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Hitting & Pushing

First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

← Vocabulary

smash into

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To smash into something is to hit it so hard that something breaks. Not a bump — a collision with a noise.

Definitions of smash into

1phrasesmash intoTo collide with something violently.B2
“The van will smash into that bollard one day.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Hitting & Pushing

First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word